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Not all of them were happy to see women [Annotator's Note: Wagner is referring to US Naval Officers in San Francisco]....

In the 1950s, Eileen Noll recognized the changes for women in the military. She felt more respected and leaned upon by...

Victor Befera was a replacement for those stationed overseas, and those stationed with the most points [Annotator's...

William Harvey served on a converted yacht named the USS Onyx (PYc-5). Onyx was 125 feet long with two diesel driven...

Bane Cook was born in August 1925 in Illinois. He had an older brother. [Annotator’s Note: Cook talks about his brother...

After the war, Paul Gibfried joined the American Legion [Annotator's Note: nonprofit organization of U.S. war veterans...

Nancy Lynch Castellano was not old enough to join the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...

Guy Grenny returned home to the United States from the Philippines via the Aleutian Islands to San Francisco [Annotato'...

There was no doubt in Lawson T. Winslow, Junior's [Annotator's Note: a Naval Reservist aboard the USS John A. Bole (DD-...

June Catherine Elliott Haggerty knew very little about World War 1 because she was born in 1920. She learned a little...

Catherine Long was born in 1924 in Dayton, Ohio. That was the home of her mother’s family. She soon moved to Pittsburgh...

James Mather's most memorable experience of World War 2 was learning about the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note:...

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